a1.4xlarge vs r7g.4xlarge

Instance Typea1.4xlarger7g.4xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeMemory optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments.

a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor
1 – Generation
4xlarge – Size
High-performance databases, data mining/analysis, in-memory databases, distributed large-scale caches, real-time processing apps for unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise apps.

r – RAM / memory optimized
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
4xlarge – Size
vCPUs1616
Memory32 GiB128 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton3 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.6 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarger7g.12xlarge, r7g.16xlarge, r7g.2xlarge, r7g.4xlarge, r7g.8xlarge, r7g.large, r7g.medium, r7g.metal, r7g.xlarge
Generationsr6g.4xlarge, r7g.4xlarge, r8g.4xlarge
Variantsr7a.4xlarge, r7gd.4xlarge, r7i.4xlarge, r7iz.4xlarge
SageMakerml.r7g.4xlarge
RDSdb.r7g.4xlarge
OpenSearchr7g.4xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.r7g.4xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput3500 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth3500 Mbps5000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput437.5 Mbps625 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance20000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 15 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.17x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
a1.4xlarge
r7g.4xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.6006
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.40800.6006
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.40800.8568
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.9520
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.9584
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.9588
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a1.0040
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.0064
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.0064
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.0067
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a1.0269
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a1.0269
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a1.0269
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.46080.8568
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a1.0269
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a1.0336
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a1.0336
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a1.0336
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a1.0336
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a1.0336
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a1.0336
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a1.0547
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a1.0547
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a1.0782
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.46560.8786
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a1.1360
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a1.1370
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a1.1424
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a1.3635
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.47040.8786
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.51360.8997
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.53280.9112
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.9302
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.9384
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.9384
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.4080n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.40800.8568
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